An Invitation for Me to Think (Paperback)

By Alexander Vvedensky, Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelvich
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Description

A continuation, in part, of the translators' study of the Russian experimental group OBERIU (OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism), this collection presents for the first time the major poetry of one of the central figures of that group, Alexander Vvedensky, and includes his great poem "God May Be All Around."

About the Author

Born in 1904 in Saint Petersburg, Alexander Vvedensky's move into the Russian avant-garde came through his appointment to the State Institute of Artistic Culture, where with the writer Danill Kharms, he developed the neologist poetry associated with the OBERIU movemnt, (The Union of the Real Art). Sentenced to internal exile, he died on a train to prison in 1941.

Product Details ISBN-10: 1933382333
ISBN-13: 9781933382333
Published: Green Integer, 08/01/2010
Pages: 250
Language: English